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aid is a supplement!, must be suited to your ability, take your time setting it up, bring out aid only when you need it, keep it simple-large but not too-and colorful, talk to the audience (not the aid), 3P's

Vocal delivery:

why do I sound the way I do?

environmental factors:

home, neighborhood, school, friends, and place of employment

what are the functional vocal skills?

force, range, quality, diction

force:

volume, emphasis

range:

pitch, inflection, melody pattern

pitch:

you want to have a habitual pitch (just below the middle pitch)

what is the golden rule of volume?

fill the room with your voice

inflection:

a vocal slide on a word or syllable (rising or falling in nature)

Quality:

pleasantness of your voice

2 categories under quality:

emotional quality, physical mechanism

the only three sounds that go through your nose are:

m, n, and ng

all other sounds come out with...

front forward placement

diction:

enunciation and pronunciation

enunciation:

the articulation of a vowel and consonant sounds distinctly made by means of the tongue, teeth, lips, lower jaw, and soft palette

pronunciation:

the expression of sounds and accents of words in connected speech in conformity with acceptable standards

what are some problems with diction?

adding sounds that shouldn't be there, omitting a sound, substituting a sound, putting the wrong accent on the word

pacing of the voice:

don't talk too fast or too slow; the amount of vocal movement

amount of vocal movement:

rate of speech (words per minute)

what effects your rate of speech?

personality, material, listeners, acoustics, and pauses

why should you pause?

to breathe, collect your thoughts, get at meaning (dramatic pause), and for transitions

the powerful speaker is:

comfortable, competent

the powerless speaker is:

opposite the powerful

what are the two types of informative speaking?

reporting and complex explanation

reporting:

presenting as much as possible in an objective, unbiased presentation

what are some uses of reporting?

lectures, frats, clubs, business reports...

what are the tools of reporting?

5W's and 1H; who, what, when, where, why, and how

what are the two methods of reporting?

narration and description

in what ways can you report using narration?

conflict, suspense, climax, personalities, and unusual settings

in what ways can you report using description?

scientific and artistic (multisensory)

what are some methods of complex explanation?

going from the known to the unknown, illustrations, analogies, statistics, or examples